Speaking for the Trees … (08/08/15)
“I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues.” ~ The Lorax (Dr. Seuss)
Are you concerned about nature & the environment & the loss of our world’s forests? Well, did you know that animal agriculture is the primary cause of rainforest destruction (with 40% of all global rainforests having been razed for cattle pasture within the past 40 years – and 220 square feet of rainforest being currently destroyed for every single pound of rainforest beef produced)? And did you know that animal agriculture is the primary cause of global topsoil loss? And did you know that animal agriculture is one of the primary causes of global water pollution? … Well, now you do.
“Unless someone like you Cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” ~ The Lorax (Dr. Seuss)
The Lorax was right, my Friends … Unless we choose to set aside our addictive cravings for comfort & pleasure in favor of becoming active, responsible stewards of our planet, it’s going to get pretty painful for us pretty quickly. And the key to doing so is A) to remember that our lives are essentially worthless unless we use them to Care for others, and B) to remember that our Caring is essentially worthless unless our Caring becomes a verb … Facta, non verba — Actions, not words.
Amen … Let it be so.
“I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this precious planet of ours. Well make no mistake, even though we are indeed wrecking it, we won’t be doing so for long … For once our greed and our stupidity finally reach critical mass – once we finally make things truly unlivable here for ourselves and start to die off in mass numbers, the Earth will finally be free of us once and for all – and she will sigh in relief – and she will bloom once more.” ~ inspired by Kurt Vonnegut
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To better understand what I’m saying, here’s how things looked before we humans started thinking we knew better …
... and here’s what has happened since then – a LOT:
… which in many places has the forests now looking something like this:
... which is getting bad enough that it SHOULD be slowly reminding more & more of us that we STILL HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE AVAILABLE to the self-destruction of our Home — that there is something that WE CAN ALL DO RIGHT NOW to significantly halt this madness …
… and that something is first & foremost to Go Vegan.
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